At 01:26 AM 11/18/2001 +1100, you wrote: >The idea of "massaging" the duplex scale. A good string player can tell you this is a bad idea. It's a habit with a lot of ignorant string players to press on a string in the peg box if the note is SLIGHTLY flat, and to pull the speaking length of the string sideways if it is sharp. A cello, violin, etc., will go out of tune minutes after this is done. It leads to furious retuning in between movements of a piece. A good teacher will warn students against this kind of string manipulation. Since a piano has more friction, it might take hours or days to go out of tune after "massaging" wire, or it might go out of tune in minutes if heavy playing pulls wire into uniform tension between segments. Susan
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